Bill Text: TX SB292 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the governor's executive authority while traveling outside of the state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-04 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB292 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB292-Comm_Sub.html
By: Huffman | S.B. No. 292 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 29, 2013; February 5, 2013, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; | ||
March 26, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 1; March 26, 2013, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 292 | By: Huffman |
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relating to the governor's executive authority while traveling | ||
outside of the state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 401.022, Government Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 401.022. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "unavailable" | ||
means, with respect to the governor or a person authorized to act as | ||
governor under the Texas Constitution or this subchapter: | ||
(1) not able to exercise the powers and discharge the | ||
duties of the office of governor for any reason specified in the | ||
Texas Constitution; | ||
(2) being physically located outside the territorial | ||
boundaries of the contiguous 48 states of the continental United | ||
States; | ||
(3) being physically located outside the state but | ||
inside the territorial boundaries of the contiguous 48 states of | ||
the continental United States if the governor or person authorized | ||
to act as governor gives notice under Section 401.0225 that the | ||
governor or person authorized to act as governor will not rely on | ||
electronic communication while absent from the state; or | ||
(4) being physically located outside this state for | ||
more than seven consecutive days. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 401, Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 401.0225 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 401.0225. NOTICE OF UNAVAILABILITY. The governor or a | ||
person authorized to act as governor shall reasonably notify the | ||
next person in the line of succession under the Texas Constitution | ||
or this subchapter when the governor or person authorized to act as | ||
governor will become unavailable as described by Section | ||
401.022(2), (3), or (4). | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect on the date on which the | ||
constitutional amendment proposed by the 83rd Legislature, Regular | ||
Session, 2013, providing that the governor, and the lieutenant | ||
governor when acting as governor, retain executive authority unless | ||
unavailable as provided by law is approved by the voters. If that | ||
amendment is not approved by the voters, this Act has no effect. | ||
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